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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 53 2 Solution by
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Choose the charge conjugation matrix so that and , and write . Since the components are odd Grassmann variables,Thus a symmetric matrix gives zero, whereas a nonzero antisymmetric matrix can give a nonzero bilinear. The four-dimensional Majorana bilinear vanishing criterion follows by transposing an antisymmetrized product and reversing its factors:For , the symmetry types are respectively antisymmetric, symmetric, symmetric and antisymmetric. These are the same-spinor selection rules of the Majorana spinor; they would be reversed for a commuting spinor. The vanishing choices are (a) and (c).
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